KEYS!!!

Ok, so keys have become Rome's newest obsession.  No, I'm serious...I think we have a key addict here.  Everyday on the way to the car and on the way home, he will obsess over the keys.  "Keys, keys, keys" he will say over and over again.  I usually give in and let him play with them in the evening because they easily keep him occupied.  However, lately it has become an obsession.  He can reach the keyhole on the front door if he stands on his tippy toes, and he tries and tries to get the key into the hole.  He was trying so hard the other day and just couldn't quite reach the knob, so I gave him my bike lock to work on.  After an hour of methodically focusing on getting the key into the lock over and over again, it was time to go in for dinner.  This threw us into a downward spiral of the biggest fit he's thrown to-date.  There have been two all-out tantrums that have put this kid in his bedroom for needing to cool it, and this was one of them (the other one was because I gave him a broken cracker).

The focus...notice his left hand moving as well (his dad does this, too)

Oh, we stopped to look at an airplane!

Back to business...

OLIVER CHARLES

Meet Rome's newest buddy, Oliver Charles Jacobson - born on September 7th!!!  I was the first guest to meet this precious little angel.  I fell in love instantly.  He's absolutely perfect!  This past weekend, we took Rox and Brad out a lasagna and watched the Bears game with the happy family.  It is sooooo precious to see Rome interacting with little babies.  He was giving Ollie kisses and was very gentle with him.  To my surprise, he's actually very engaging with little ones.  He also has a little boy at daycare (exactly one year younger than Rome) that he likes to entertain by clucking his tongue and waving at.  It melts my heart to see him this way and makes me want another one really bad.  

Oliver about 2 hours after he was born

Rome and Ollie

All decked out in his Bears gear - how cute is he?!?

Kisses!!!

TOUR DE FAT 2012

You guessed it...it's that time of year again!  Tour de Fat...or shall we say, Tour de Freaks :).  We Bostics love this holiday.  It's even better than Halloween because there's no rhyme or reason to anyone's get-up.  You can have a theme (which I like to do) or you can be completely random.  It's a bike parade, it's a music festival, it's a gigantic beer tent, it's a carnival.  It's everything!  And it. is. FUN.  This year, I was inspired by the Beatles LOVE performance in Vegas and decided to do an aquatic theme.  I was a jellyfish, Rome was a Pirate (he was supposed to be an octopus, but my sewing skills have slacked since my hippie-clothes-makin-days), and Travis was Scuba Steve!  Oh, the fun :)

Our crew

Now that's what I call a "hoop"ty

More pirates!  On a ship!

Whoa!  How does he ride that thing?

The cutest little pirate there ever was!

Really capturing the essence of the jellyfish in this one ;)

BIG BOY IN A LITTLE ROBE

Ohhhh, he'll probably hate me for this one later, but how can you not laugh at this picture?  After bath time, we decided to try on the ol' Elmo robe to see if it still fit.  It doesn't ;).  Please tell me you see the pee stream in this picture?!?  If not, look again!!!

MAROON BELLS

Against our better judgement, we decided to head up to the mountains for Labor Day.  Actually, considering it was a popular holiday, it wasn't that packed where we were.  We booked a nice room in Edwards, just west of Vail.  We took our bikes along, knowing there would be great trails around.  The first day, we went to Beaver Creek for Oktoberfest.  We tried to ride our bikes up the mountain, but after Daddy took us up one mountain going the wrong way, we decided not to make the 2-mile trek up the other mountain.  We took the bus instead, which Rome was equally happy with.  After Oktoberfest, we went back to Edwards and found a great local brewery (Gore Range) for dinner.  On Saturday, we took a day trip to Aspen with the sole mission of finally seeing the Maroon Bells.  The Maroon Bells are the most photographed mountains in North America.  They are absolutely stunning!  We took a bus to the trailhead and decided to hike back to Crater Lake from there (reminiscing of Oregon's Crater Lake, of course).  The only problem was that because we brought the bike and Burley, we left behind Rome's hiking carrier.  Oh well, we decided to make the trek anyway...a lady told me it was only an hour and a half hike.  Oh, wait...did she mean one-way?!?  Yep!  We took turns carrying Rome on our shoulders for about a 6-mile loop.  We were getting some crazy looks, but we're troopers...it's how we roll.  It was worth it...see for yourself.